Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓

On Tuesday, May 18th at 9am PST / 12pm EST Chris Guillebeau one of the most famous travelling bloggers launches another edition of his Empire Building Kit that received stunning attention more than a month ago. This time it will be open only for one day.

EBK is about building your own empire, your freedom in 1 year. Chris offers a lot of great content for people who plan to switch to the new life. Sign up for a rockstar lifestyle design resources.

I also recommend a wide range of Uncoventional Guides by Chris Guillebeau.

Download 3-column
Copyblogger Theme

After receiving a few questions regarding the way I redesigned Copyblogger theme by adding leftbar and making it 3-column template, I decided it will be the easiest way to make it available for everyone to dowload from SharingMatters.com.

To customise the theme, just replace images/header.jpg (990×146px) with your own image. To remove text from the header, go to header.php and delete the following line:

<a href=”<?php bloginfo(’url’); ?>” title=”<?php bloginfo(’name’); ?>”><?php bloginfo(’name’); ?></a>

Let me know if you found any problems so I can improve it and please keep all the links in the footer (you can remove SITEMAP or add your own in the pages section and it will link to it automatically). Just recently I have fixed a few bugs that occurred in IE6.

Edited on 30/04/2008: Below is a list of basic plug-ins that I recommend installing in the first place:

• All in One SEO Pack - to make sure your blog structure is search engine friendly
• Sociable - automatically add links on your posts to popular social bookmarking sites
• Askimet - a must-have spam protector
• FeedBurner FeedSmith - FeedBurner tracking tool (only if you use FB for your RSS)
• Subscribe to comments - Allows readers to receive notifications of new comments that are posted to an entry

I finally decided to reorganize this blog and start writing regularly. Thank you for all positive feedback I received. I appreciate your support and I can promise that from now on you will see more serious content.

After my first months in blogging I found my way in doing this and I hope you will like it.

Redesign needed

My first decision was to change WP theme. I didn??Â?Â?t like the previous one and I couldn??Â?Â?t improve it as easy as I would expect. So I was looking for some well-prepared theme and, lucky me, I found it ??Â?Â? Copyblogger theme! While reading different blogs I stopped on Pearsonified.com and it took me just a few seconds on the site to realize this page is going to end in my Blogroll.

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If you can’t, have a read about Michael Arrington, a former attorney and entrepreneur who is now 37 and two years ago nothing seemed to show what is coming. He became famous because of his TechCrunch blog and now has a whole farm of different kind of tech blogs with a few people taking care of them. Working 16 hours a day and living in one of the richest places in the USA he is one of the most influential tech journalists. Find out why he didn’t want to sell TechCrunch for $8.5 million, what are his plans for the future and what is so special about this guy.

One of the reasons I have started sharingmatters.com was to collect links of ‘must-read’ articles found on the internet.

Does Your Copy Hold Up To A Quick Glance? is one of such editorials. It is a professionally written article, based on eyetracking researches, aimed on explaining how to keep the visitors on your website and let them read your content insted of just scanning it. If you have anything to do with webdesigning, you’ve got to read it!

This post is also a great occasion to recommend you the website where the above article is published: www.digital-web.com

A List Apart Magazine (”For People Who Make Websites”) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.

It is one of the most popular places in the Internet for people designing websites. You can find there lots of articles with advices, solutions and ideas written by experienced webmasters, helpful epsecially for those who want to stick to the web standards.